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Strawberry Roan
Sons of the Pioneers
Unlabeled 78rpm
(1943)
Strawberry Roan, aka, The Castration of the Strawberry Roan circulated just like the one you see here. These type of records were sold under counters at record stores and often gave vague titles, no credits and no label information. They were often dirty and blue material not suitable of polite company.
This is the way that Lucille Bogan's infamous take of "Shave 'em Dry" first appeared to the public.
Here we have Dick Foran singing with The Sons of the Pioneers, a VERY NSFW version of Strawberry Roan.
The story goes that during the Pioneers' stint recording radio shows for Dr. Pepper, they were asked to record a special version for the annual Dr. Pepper stockholders board meeting. During this time, they had found these alternate lyrics that one of them had written and decided to record it privately as a joke. Listen here!
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